[Numpy-discussion] Switch to using ATLAS for OSX binary wheels

Matthew Brett matthew.brett at gmail.com
Sat Jun 14 05:27:24 EDT 2014


On Friday, June 13, 2014, Julian Taylor <jtaylor.debian at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> On 13.06.2014 14:07, Matthew Brett wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Summary : I'm planning to upload OSX wheels for numpy and scipy using
> > the ATLAS blas / lapack library instead of the default OSX Accelerate
> > framework.
> >
>
> hi,
> thanks for doing this.
>
> Have you built a generic atlas binary?
> atlas tunes it self to the capabilities of the machine its building on.
> So if the machine used to create be binary is newer than the oldest mac
> machine we want to support it can produce errors due to the use of
> illegal instructions (avx/sse4 etc.)
> So far I know the unknown machine type will produce a somewhat generic
> binary (but not for ARM).
> _______________________________________
>

 Sorry am traveling and dont have the reference to hand, but all intel macs
have sse2.   So I built the atlas binaries with sse2 only...

Cheers,

Matthew
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